Risk Watch

Yemen will be receiving military aid and training from the US to combat the multiple threats it faces. This will help the government tackle those threats, as it struggles to keep the country united....

Fighting in Saadi, Yemen has spread into Saudi Arabia. This threatens to widen the conflict into a longer-term regional one, and result in increasing the risk of ethnic instability in the GCC region....

There is increasing pressure for the interior minister to resign due to allegations that he misled parliament as well the issues of calls to bail-out Kuwaiti citizens affected by the economic crisis....

Results from leading Dubai developer shows some positive results in the short-term. However, there are no clear long-term plans putting the survivability of Emaar and similar developers into question....